Trimming out a house - how to bid?
I've been presented with a full set of plans for a 6300+ square foot house and asked to bid ALL the trimwork. Single piece 4¼" Crown, 3¼" casings & window frames, 4½" base, built-ins, cabinet boxes (and install pre-ordered doors and drawer fronts), make drawer boxes, adjustable & fixed shelves, media cabinet boxes, storage cabinet boxes, yada, yada, yada. I've never priced out "bulk" trim like this.
The kicker to this - I would have 4 weeks to do the whole house. I'm thinking I might need ALL my tools insite, and would have to duplicate myself about 6 times.
The General Contrator wants me to bid labor only - he would supply all materials. Everything is paint grade. (In his words - he doesn't want "furniture"!)
Not sure I want this one.
Todd
Building cabinets isnt trim
I do this for a livin and cabinets are cabinets to be priced seperately from "Trimming out" a house. I think the builder is smoking crack if he expects it done in 4 weeks including built ins or cabinets. Maybe hes just extremely inexperienced . I can give you pricing that I use for piece work such as crown, casing,door installation etc. Outsourcing would be the only viable alternative to the timing issue ( Cabinets,builtins, etc. by others}. I do general contracting -large renovations and new home construction along with custom work for other GCs{very few}. If you work this out GET A SIGNED CONTRACT.